Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

olalekana0448 — Fri, 28 May 2021 23:11:51 GMT

Thanks, Mike. Vinita has provided the solution.

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

olalekana0448 — Fri, 28 May 2021 23:10:23 GMT

Hi Vinita,

you are the best! Thanks a bunch. Your solution was correct. I didn't implement before I replied. I thought u assumed I said the barcode didn't work.

Thanks once again:)

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

olalekana0448 — Fri, 28 May 2021 23:03:02 GMT

Hi Vinita,

I am always appreciative of your contribution. The barcode works. The issue is about a default "infinity" value in the component which I do not want. I want the barcode to be empty with no default value until the user inputs a value.

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 28 May 2021 15:08:28 GMT

Similarly, I was able to reproduce the issue if and only if I manually typecast the value to integer upon save (which has approximately the same net effect as saving it into an integer RI).

a!localVariables(
  local!barVal: null(),
  
  a!barcodeField(
    label: "My Barcode",
    value: local!barVal,
    saveInto: a!save(
      local!barVal,
      tointeger(save!value)
    )
  )
)

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

Vinita Jain — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:15:43 GMT

Hi olalekana0001

I tried the same thing that you did and the barcode component seems to be working fine without any infinity error through the local variables. But yes it is not working correctly if you are using rule input of type integer. Adding screenshots. So your solution here would be to use local variables it will not cause any issue unless you are casting it to an integer or you can also use rule input of type text which should also work absolutely fine.

Using Local variables:

Using Rule input of type integer:

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

Vinita Jain — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:14:56 GMT

Using Local variables:

Using Rule input of type integer:

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

olalekana0448 — Fri, 28 May 2021 06:37:22 GMT

Hi Mike, the auto value has nothing to do with my initial value. It's a behavior of the barcode component itself. I would like to get rid of this default value as it's affecting my logic. There is a button I don't want to show until a value is entered into the barcode. The behavior is not consistent with the default barcode value. The screenshots are attached. Any help will be appreciated.

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 27 May 2021 14:31:40 GMT

I guess it depends on what your initial value declaration for "local!barcode" was. If it was based on an integer-type Rule Input, then perhaps it would behave in the way you pictured. When I first tried a bare form with a local variable "local!value" with no default value set, and set it to the value and saveInto of an a!barcodeField, and entered a long string of numbers, I noticed that it saved into the local variable as Text type. I had to alter the saveInto to cast the save!value to integer, then i got the "infinity symbol" when entering the same long string of numbers (i.e. 15 "1"s).

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

olalekana0448 — Thu, 27 May 2021 14:28:35 GMT

The auto-loaded value is 12-digit numbers, just something to represent a barcode. "Though by default it wanted to save the entered value as text, which did not produce that error". I need clarification here because I will still like to save the value. Or can I just save it into a Rule Input and not in the local variable ?

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 27 May 2021 13:35:21 GMT

So out of curiosity, what was the auto-loaded value of the local variable? I was able to reproduce approximately the same effect last night when I tried, by setting the value to a typecast integer and entering too long of a number; though by default it wanted to save the entered value as text, which did not produce that error.

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

olalekana0448 — Thu, 27 May 2021 08:05:53 GMT

Thanks to all. I have figured out what the bug is. The value is set to a local variable and this is automatically loaded with the application. The screenshot is attached in case someone runs into the same issue in the future.

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

olalekana0448 — Thu, 27 May 2021 07:41:27 GMT

I am very happy for your willingness to help. People like you make the world a better place. It looks like an infinity symbol. The value will change dynamically based on the user input. It is stored in a local variable only for now. Just wish I could stop the symbol from auto generating

RE: Auto Generated Symbol inside barcodeField

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 26 May 2021 23:58:41 GMT

That looks like the "infinity" symbol that's sometimes displayed when you attempt to display an integer data type that's too large (which doesn't take much). What do you have the value of "local!barcode" set to? I'm not incredibly familiar with how this field functions but it seems it might be relevant here. Also I suppose you should double check that the value isn't null, since (just guessing) that might cause wacky results too.